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On May 30th, 2015 the Belgian VTES EC Qualifier was held in Brussels, Belgium, this time with 23 players from four different countries (Belgium (8), Germany (3), Italy (9) and the Netherlands (3)). attending the qualifier tournament. The tournament was also part of the Italian Qualifier Tour 2015. The final standings after 3 rounds and the final were as follows:

From the antitribu who forged the Sabbat to dreaded Dracula himself, the Tzimisce have carved an indelible place for themselves among the society of the Damned. The modern nights have caught up with these monsters, however, who have fallen from their place as masters of hoary estates to degenerates bound by the callous whims of the Sabbat.

I can understand why most of these cards need to be restricted to “once per game“, hut some of the cards are plain ridiculously limited by the restriction, e.g. what is broken about playing multiple Tajdid per game? Or Reality Mirror, for example, could be easily restricted by allowing it once per turn, instead of once per game.

.. you cannot play (in this order) Govern the Unaligned with Conditioning, and then play Seduction (which just replaced for the Conditioning) on another vampire. The reason is that even if you play all these cards before the other player could react/interact, the Seduction can only be played as the action is announced. And that window has closed, when you played Conditioning, which is a regular action modifier.

So the correct order is to play the action card, play all (one or more) action modifier cards that are needed to be played as the action as announced (or use any similar effects like using Club Illusion), and then play any (other) action modifiers you want to play.

In earlier times — when the Malkavians had the clan disciplines Auspex, Obfuscate, Dominate — the archetypical bleed deck was based on Malkavians with Dominate & Obfuscate. With the release of the Sabbat expansion the Malkavian antitribu with Dementation (instead of Dominate) took over this role. Although Dementation lacks some of the versatility (in areas other than bleed) Dominate offers (e.g. Deflection, or Govern the Unaligned), Dementation has its own merits. Cards like Kindred Spirits offer basic bleed capability and pool gain, while other cards can provide stealth like Deny or Confusion. Furthermore, Kindred Spirits also offers the possibility to bleed any other player at the table, not only your predator. So this gives the player additional potential for dealing and cross-table interaction. Today the Malkavian antitribuKindred Spirits bleed deck is one of the most successful and most feared decks in the VTES tournament scene. Another name of the deck is Fast Eddie, since Eddie Gaines is the smallest vampire with Dementation which can bleed for 2 in its turn 2, showing how fast and effective this deck delivers damage to its prey pool.

Remark: Although this deck archetype often uses a mixed crypt of Malkavian antitribu and Malkavian I will often relate to this deck’s vampires as Malkavian antitribu for avoiding more complicated sentences.Continue Reading

On May 16th, 2015 the Russian National VTES Championship 2015 was held in Moscow, Russia with 9 players attending the final tournament. The final standings after 2 rounds and the final were as follows: